Dragonflies are ideal hunting machines. More than 80 percent of their brain is used for processing visual information, and it is believed that some species can see objects up to 30 feet away and ...

Dragonflies are in the Order Odonata. Odon is the Greek word for tooth. Dragonflies don't have true teeth but they do have extremely large, strong mandibles with sharply-pointed tooth-like ...

Donation Options Search Search Search Swarms of the common green darner dragonfly have been spotted along the lakefront as they migrate more than 900 miles to the Gulf of Mexico. John Abbott Share ...

With 360-degree vision, bright-colored bodies that sparkle jewel-like in the sun, and acrobatic flight patterns reaching speeds of nearly 35 miles per hour, dragonflies are some of the more ...

The color of dragonfly communities reacts to seasonal variation in solar radiation. Over the last 30 years, however, this color pattern has changed—probably as a result of climate change.

“It’s like an invasion!” a woman giggled as she lowered her head and launched her bike through a swarm of dragonflies on the lakefront trail. These large-eyed insects with nearly 4-inch ...

Caitlyn Forster received funding from The Australian Research Council. If you’ve spent much time outdoors along the east coast of Australia in the past week, particularly near waterways, you ...

Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The show was courtesy of one of nature's most impressive aviators: dragonflies. With some as large as hummingbirds and others faster than ...

New Jersey is one of the best states for viewing dragonflies in terms of both sheer number and variety of species, according to environmental experts. The colorful creature, like many other ...